Posts Tagged ‘Google Doc’

TeachMeet North West – My Presentation

I’m doing a quick presentation at Teach Meet North West tomorrow night in Manchester.
If you haven’t been to a Teachmeet before it’s an ‘unconference’ where enthusaistic teachers get together to share ideas, usually with an E-Learning theme.
I’m doing a 2 minute nano-presentation on Google Forms, based on my interview / blog post from earlier in [...]

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My 3 Year E-Learning Development Plan

I have been in post at my new school as Director of E-Learning for 4 weeks now, and it’s been a heck of a ride!  A completely new IT Support team for the school has meant that it has been a trying start to the year for all concerned.  The new team has pulled together [...]

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The VLE debate, my thoughts

There has been much debate of late about whether Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), particularly in their British state sponsored variations are dead.  For some of the thoughts check out Lindsay Jordan, James Clay, Matt Lingard and Steve Wheeler.
One week today I finally start my new job as Director of E-Learning at a high school in [...]

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Google Wave – the beginning of the end for VLEs?

Google announced a new product to the World at it’s Google I/O conference yesterday, Google Wave.

There has been much written about it around the Web, by folks more intelligent than I, so if you want to catch up on the intricacies then read some of these sites:
Ars Technica Tech Crunch Tech Crunch again LifeHacker DownloadSquad
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Mapping Data on Google Maps

I’ve been playing around with two tools for mapping data onto Google Maps.  They both have potential in and out of the classroom.

Technorati Tags: Data, Google Doc, Google Spreadsheet, MapAList, mapping, maps, Maths, SpatialKey, visualising

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Data Collection & Questionnaires with Google Docs & Twitter

Interview Reflection: Part 2:
My interview lesson was rated as ‘good with outstanding features’ and as that was in part thanks to my network I thought it only fair I shared it with the World.
I chose to teach a lesson focusing on data collection using questionnaires. A tricky lesson to get right I finally nailed [...]

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